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Originally Posted by headlight
This is different from the referees, whose job is to enforce the rules as they are written,
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When rules are written "FOUL if INTENTIONAL" and then I have .01 seconds to decide if that was intentional, which foul/tech foul/YC/RC to give, look down to hit the button on the panel, radio my head ref to inform them, and still watch everything else going on in my area, I'm gonna mess up once in a while.
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Originally Posted by headlight
the referees aren't a team,
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I'm sorry, but yes we are. We have to work as a TEAM to try our best to make good calls, get everything right, and provide the best experience possible for all teams at an event.
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Originally Posted by headlight
they aren't a player, they're supposed to be an unbiased entity, not play the game, they're basically an extension of the field.
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The unbiased entity part is where I think it gets tricky to ask heavily involved mentors to step up and ref at events. They want to watch their team do well, so they might not pay as much attention to their end of the field.
Refs are an extension of the field in a weird sort of way, but the field also breaks sometimes. And under certain circumstances that means a match is replayed. Like broken field bits, refs can "break" too and mess up. Sometimes this means a score/penalty/foul/etc is changed after the fact.
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Originally Posted by headlight
So when the referees seem like they're influencing the game too much it gets frustrating.
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I think you're meaning influencing as refs missing crossings for example, or calling are lots of fouls? I'll say that yes, a ref can influence a game heavily by missing crossings, but I won't say that it's the ref's fault if many fouls are called. I put that one squarely on the GDC for the game, or the team for their choice in strategy
side note -- I will continue to be a ref for as long as I can, however I will probably be picky about the events I ref at, knowing that one bad call could land me in the Hall of Ref Shame on CD
